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Fire Works by ECAL

Design Miami/Basel 08: the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) presents a collection of hand-blown glass lamps by design students at Design Miami/Basel this week.

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The pieces, by students Béatrice Durandard (below), Delphine Rumo, Julien Renault (above and top) and Michel Charlot, were produced under the tutorship of designer Max Lamb.

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All pictures are by ECAL/Michel Bonvin

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Below: Delphine Rumo

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Below: Michel Charlot

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Info from ECAL follows:

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Fire Works by ECAL at Design Miami/Basel

During Design Miami/ Basel from 3 to 5 June 2008, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne will be presenting projects in glass by students of the Industrial Design Department following a workshop with Max Lamb

For it’s third participation at Design Miami/, ECAL proudly presents “Fire Works”, a collection of spectacular blown-glass lights designed by a selected group of 1st and 2nd year students from the Industrial Design Department, under the guidance of young British designer Max Lamb.

The students have developed a new collection of blown-glass lighting designed specifically for Design Miami/ Basel, each design exploring the visual and physical properties of glass and exploiting the potential of the glass blowing process in collaboration with Matteo Gonet, a young glass blower from Bern.

Description of the three projects:

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A triptych of primary colour, ‘Les Modules’ comprises three individual glass cones of varying height and diameter that can be arranged in 36 configurations.

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A game between surface and ceiling, ‘Table Lamp’ is a pendant light and a bowl blown from a single mould.

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Representing the stem of a tree, ‘Des Souches’ is a family of three cylindrical vessels in dark, natural hued glass.

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A glass monolith, ‘Une Lampe en Verre’ transforms thin sheets of glass into a dark volume of light.

“Fire Works”
Martkhalle Viadustrasse 10, 4057 Basel. www.designmiami.com
Exhibition open from 3 to 5 June 2008 (11am to 19pm).